Greetings!
I have a two fold challenge with the final result being recovering files from
a disk that is currently non-bootable but can be accessed as a slave drive.
The desktop is a Compaq 6027US and out of the blue (according to a friend)
it would not boot up properly. The Compaq and XP splashes would come up and then there would be a click and the whole boot cycle starts up again.
Current state of the desktop is running fine with a new hard drive that has been formatted using the restore disks that came with the computer.
Challenge 1: How can I make this drive bootable again WITHOUT reformatting? (OR Can I somehow clone this drive to another one and boot from that?)
The reason I stipulate no reformatting is because that would completely wipe
out any chance of meeting Challenge 2.
Challenge 2: Some sentimentally important picture and teaching files are not
to be found on the drive. I thought that a system restore to an earlier date
would take care of that.
Thank you for your suggestions. I look forward to making this happen!!!!!
-Mark
I have a two fold challenge with the final result being recovering files from
a disk that is currently non-bootable but can be accessed as a slave drive.
The desktop is a Compaq 6027US and out of the blue (according to a friend)
it would not boot up properly. The Compaq and XP splashes would come up and then there would be a click and the whole boot cycle starts up again.
Current state of the desktop is running fine with a new hard drive that has been formatted using the restore disks that came with the computer.
Challenge 1: How can I make this drive bootable again WITHOUT reformatting? (OR Can I somehow clone this drive to another one and boot from that?)
The reason I stipulate no reformatting is because that would completely wipe
out any chance of meeting Challenge 2.
Challenge 2: Some sentimentally important picture and teaching files are not
to be found on the drive. I thought that a system restore to an earlier date
would take care of that.
Thank you for your suggestions. I look forward to making this happen!!!!!
-Mark